cairo-perf and the X server should be bound to CPUs (either the same
or separate) on SMP systems. Not doing so causes random results when
the X server is moved to or from cairo-perf's CPU during the
benchmarks.
This test shows that drawing a 100x100 single-pixel wide box outline is
currently 5 to 16 times slower when using the natural cairo_stroke() as
compared to a rather awkward cairo_fill() of two rectangles.
[ # ] backend-content test-size min(ticks) min(ms) median(ms) stddev. iterations
[ 0] image-rgba box-outline-stroke-100 301321 0.218 0.219 0.39% 5
[ 1] image-rgba box-outline-fill-100 18178 0.013 0.013 0.43% 5
[ 0] xlib-rgba box-outline-stroke-100 379177 0.275 0.276 1.39% 6
[ 1] xlib-rgba box-outline-fill-100 83355 0.060 0.060 0.17% 5
The map for this test case was originally demonstrated as a
performance problem in this mozilla bug report:
A very slow SVG file with <path>s
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332413
I obtained permission from the creator of the original file to
include the data here, (see comments in world-map.h for details).
We don't need this at this deep level since callers can now
implement this limiting manually since stats.iterations is
now returned. Also, this was interfering with the -i option
to cairo-perf anyway.
This new test case is the 0th polygon polygon from Zack Rusin's
recent cairorender program as made avaialable here:
http://ktown.kde.org/~zrusin/examples/cairorender.tar.bz2
This polygon contains about 1000 coordinates and looks like a
hand-drawn version of the word another.
The perf tree's sha1 is now in the cache file name, so that
if the performance suite itself ever changes then new data
will be generated rather than using stale stuff from the cache.
Also, we now use the src tree's sha1 rather than the commit's
so that commits that don't change the src directory are also
treated as identical, (which they really should be as far as
performance of the library itself is concerned).
Instead of just discarding the worst 15% of the results, we now
do IQR-based detection and elimination of outliers. Also, instead
of reporting mean times we now report minimum and median times.
We still do compute the mean and standard deviation for the
detection of when results seem stable for early bailout. And we
do still report the standard deviation.
A statistician might complain that it looks funny to report the
median and the standard deviation together, (instead of median
and average absolute deviation from the median, say), but I liked
the standard deviation since it is always larger, so it might
ensure better separatation if we use it to determine when two
sets of results are sufficiently different to be interesting.
This test is really just for hammering the double to fixed-point conversion
(in _cairo_fixed_from_double) that happens as doubles from API calls gets
translated into internal cairo fixed-point numbers.
This makes the entire performance test suite about 10 times faster
on my system. And I don't think that the results are significantly
worse, (many tests are stable after only 5 iterations while some
still run to 100 iterations without reaching our stability criteria).
This will finally allow us to very easily add lots of other
tests that will similarly involve iterating over the various
sources and operators of interest.
The motivation here is to have the cairo_t context available
to the perf funcs before they call into cairo_perf_run, (so
that they can do one-time setup of source etc. for several
runs).
This changes the perf test output format to be a little more human friendly,
reporting times in ms instead of seconds. It also adds a test number
that could be used in the future for specifying an explicit test to run
(test number, target surface, test name, and size uniquiely identify
a test).
Also adds a few paint tests.
We do this by adding a new cairo_perf_timer_set_finalize function and
in the case of the xlib backend passing a callback to that function
that does a 1x1 XGetImage.
Add a new cairo_boilerplate_mode_t so that the boilerplate targets can
do slightly different things if being tested for correctness vs. being
run for performance.
